About

Dancers

The dancers of BalletLab are important collaborators in the development of new works, helping shape new works through intensive studio processes and experimentation.

Phillip Adams BalletLab works with a number of skilled performers, engaging a different team for each project. Consistently drawing from new talent emerging from Australian universities, Phillip Adams BalletLab collaborates on projects with many emerging and established practitioners in dance and other mediums.

Deanne Butterworth

A performer, choreographer & teacher, Deanne has been working in contemporary dance, since 1994 performing in Australia and abroad.

Ellen Davies

Matthew Day

Matthew Day is a Choreographer and Dancer who works across various artistic mediums and cultural contexts. Matthew is invested in conceptual choreographic practices that are intensely physical and push the boundaries of dance and performance.

Tim Harvey

Timothy is a dancer, teacher and Remedial Therapy practitioner from Melbourne, Australia. He has performed in the works of Philip Adams with BalletLab since 2004 (Fiction, Incarnation, Origami, Brindabella and Amplification) touring regularly within Australia, across the United States and around Europe.

Benjamin Hurley

Benjamin grew up in Alice Springs moving to Melbourne to study dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has performed works by Miriam Nicholls (Bond), Adam Wheeler and 2nd Toe dance collective with SPRUNG Youth Dance Company. In 2013 Benjamin was awarded the Northern Territories’ Most Promising Male Performer and the Northern Territory Arts Scholarship. During his time at the VCA he worked with choreographers Jo Lloyd, Anna Smith, Prue Lang, Rheannon Port and Stephanie Lake. In 2015 Benjamin travelled to Paris participating in the CND Camping Festival doing workshops with Jone San Martin and also performed Half Glass by Emma Riches in Singapore as part of the M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival. Upon graduating, he has worked with and performed professionally in works choreographed by Victoria Chiu, ARTS FISSION Company, the Australian Conservatoire of Ballet, Lee Serle, Rochelle Carmichael, Shian Law, Phillip Adams and Emily Johnson.

Kyle Kremerskothen

Kyle began dancing in 1997 with Stompin Youth Dance Company performing in Grind #2 and Stompin/Danceworks collaboration Distance. In 1998 Kyle relocated to Melbourne to undertake a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at Deakin University. He has also studied at the Victorian College of the Arts attaining a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Arts.

Gregory Lorenzutti

Rennie McDougall

Rennie McDougall began working with Phillip Adams BalletLab while studying at the VCA in 2008, and has since collaborated with the company during developments and performances of Aviary, Miracle, Above and Amplification.

Olivia McPherson

Originally from the Far South Coast of NSW and a member of fLiNG Physical Theatre Youth Company, Olivia is now based in Melbourne, having recently graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2016.

Olivia has worked with Yellow Wheel Youth Company, performing in various projects, including her involvement as a Yellow Wheel intern and performer in Chunky Move’s It Sounds Silly in 2014. Olivia has featured in independent folio projects with artists from VCA and RMIT. This includes her feature in a dance film presented in the New York Waltzes World Premiere and Mini Dance Film Festival in 2015 and her performance in the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Her visit to France in 2015 saw her participate in a range of workshops at the Camping Festival (Centre National de la Danse), Micadanses and the Montpellier Dance Festival, connecting with multiple dance artists, including David Hernández and Nina Vallon.

Whilst at the VCA, Olivia performed in Singapore at the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2015: Continuum Dance Exchange. Following this she was the recipient of the Lionel Gell Foundation Scholarship for excellence in her study. Olivia was chosen to present her work Render in the 2016 VCA danceON Season and was later awarded the Orloff Family Trust Scholarship for most outstanding in her graduating year at the VCA. During her graduating year, Olivia performed in Melanie Lane’s work, Remake, as part of Chunky Move’s Next Move program and also participated in Handovers and Translations, a durational gallery work choreographed by Prue Lang in collaboration with Fayen d'Evie and Sophie Takách.

Carlee Mellow

Carlee Mellow works as a choreographer, performer, and teacher of yoga and dance. Over the last 15 years she has worked in both film and live performance collaborating with many choreographers and directors, touring nationally and internationally.

Brooke Stamp

Brooke Stamp maintains a rigorous practice as a performer, choreographer and teacher in Melbourne, while continuing the development of her solo choreographic practice and interdisciplinary collaborations throughout Australia and overseas.

Lillian Steiner

Lilian Steiner is a Melbourne-based performer and choreographer. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Dance program in 2010, Lilian has performed with Lucy Guerin Inc., Phillip Adams’ Balletlab (Above, MONA FOMA, 2011) and in Rennie McDougall’s SUPERTONE (Next Wave Festival, 2012) for which she was nominated for a Female Dancer Greenroom Award.

Clair Peters

Clair has been performing professionally in Australia and abroad since 2004. During this time she has worked with Melbourne based dance companies BalletLab, Chunkymove and The Australian Ballet Company.

Timothy Walsh

Geoffrey Watson

Geoffrey Watson is a Melbourne based artist working with an interdisciplinary focus in dance and design. Geoffrey has received ongoing training and mentorship from Melbourne based couturier Maximilian since 2011.

Joanne White

Peter AB Wilson

Peter A B Wilson graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 2010. During his time there he performed lead roles in Jiří Kylián's Songs of a Wayfarer and Petal Ashmole-Miller's Snow Queen, among others.